AIMS-Senegal Participates in the 2016 Next Einstein Forum’s Global Gathering

The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) Global Gathering, the first global science forum to be in held in Africa, took place from 8-10 March in Dakar, Senegal. The forum brought together over 700 diverse participants from 80 countries, including many scientists, mathematicians, and technologists — nearly half of them women and under the age of 42. Also on hand were representatives from government, the private and public sectors, and academia, including AIMS-Senegal.

Dr. Mouhamed Moustapha Fall, AIMS-Senegal’s Research Chair, participated in the forum and was honored as a NEF Fellow. As part of the Einstein Challenge Dr. Fall hopes to understand the interplay between non local geometry and relativistic quantum mechanisms (RQM). He stated in a press conference that he wants to make mathematics accessible to both the educated and illiterate in Africa by demonstrating the practical applicability of mathematics and benefits of optimization.

This year’s AIMS Master’s class was also in attendance on all three days of the forum. Master’s student El Hadji Ngom recalled, “NEF allowed me to be in direct contact with leaders in the field, both the scientific and political. For me it was a moment for exchange with leading researchers and policymakers from universities and enterprises from around the world.”

The next NEF Global Gathering will be held in 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda, which is home to the AIMS headquarters, Africa’s first quantum research center Quantum Leap Africa and the Next Einstein Forum secretariat.